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Desire is on the skids as it fails to update disappointed punters

12.09.11
No news was certainly not considered good news by long-suffering investors in Desire Petroleum... more

Borough Market: under threat of extinction

21.07.11
Travel experts have put Borough Market on a worldwide list of 'endangered destinations'... more

Rockhopper leaping but Madagascar dives in oil's gamble

27.06.11
Buying the small oil explorers is often likened to gambling, a "put it on red or black" punt... more

Burglars grab Ben Fogle's foreign cash stash

11.04.11
Adventurer Ben Fogle told how robbers targeted his Notting Hill home as he and his pregnant wife stood outside packing their car with luggage ... more

Africa: 50 Years of Music tells the cultural story of a continent

24.09.10
A remarkable 18-CD box set celebrates half a century of African musicianship... more

Al Qaeda ‘kidnapped French workers’ in Niger

22.09.10
An al Qaeda group in North Africa claims responsibility for the kidnapping of five French workers at a uranium mine in Niger... more

A lot of fuss and too little quality at Redhook

08.07.10
Redhook - a new US-style seafood and steak venture has potential but needs to get its priorities right.... more

Saf provides vegan treats to savour in Whole Foods

10.06.10
The the food is vegan and most is cooked below 48C to preserve its nutritional value at Saf at Whole Foods Market.... more

Keisuke Honda: Japan have nothing to lose

07.06.10
Russia-based playmaker has hit back at Japan's critics following four consecutive pre-World Cup defeats... more

Down some strong coffee for Madagascar

26.05.10
Madagascar, JT Rogers’s captivating account of a missing person, is not for the faint of attention span.... more

Sondheim influences Tick, Tick...Boom!

26.05.10
The Union has rightly gained a reputation for musicals, but Tick, Tick...Boom! isn’t one of its best. ... more

Magical chocolatey mystery tour

01.04.10
The 22 bus route from Piccadilly to Putney is the best in London. Or so thinks chocoholic Victoria Stewart ... more

Spice world: Zanzibar

26.03.10
Stanley Johnson dives into Zanzibar to snorkel with dolphins, rub noses with colobus monkeys and visit houses made from coral ... more

Jet crash girl, 12, tells how she clung to debris as others died

25.08.09
Girl who was the only survivor of a plane crash in which 152 crew and passengers died spoke publicly for the first time about her ordeal... more

Discover the Marais: the fourth dimension of Paris

21.08.09
The Marais in the 4ème arrondissement is a chaotic cobbled enclave, worlds away from the chilly boulevards of 19th-century Paris. Gianluca Longo loses himself among the bourgeois bohemians... more

A holiday from hell? I know, I've been there

23.07.09
Burglary, a flat tyre, food poisoning, dodgy weather and crap restaurants - just a standard family holiday for Laura Craik... more

Profile: Sacha Baron Cohen and the making of Bruno

18.06.09
Sacha Baron Cohen is cinema’s most secretive star. So what — and who — is behind his latest outrageous creation, unveiled last night?.... more

Jack Tweed jailed for 12 weeks for taxi driver assault

14.04.09
Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed has been jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting a taxi driver.... more

EMI copyright deal to protect Martin Luther King speeches

18.03.09
The speeches of Martin Luther King are to be protected under a copyright deal with a British record company... more

Rebels force president of Madagascar to step down

17.03.09
The president of Madagascar has agreed to step down, the day after troops loyal to the opposition stormed his palace in the capital... more

New age of the 'ism' in Altermodern

06.02.09
Super-curator Nicolas Bourriaud has chosen some fascinating work for Altermodern, his survey of contemporary art — it's his theory that is flawed.... more

Mamma Mia! goes straight to No 1 in the records books

02.01.09
Mamma Mia! The Movie is the biggest-selling DVD of all time... more

Escape 2 Africa is ready for roaring success

04.12.08
Ben Stiller has an ear for mainstream projects that keep a few steps ahead of the crowd. Escape 2 Africa never treats us like dumb animals. ... more

Spend time at Espelette

01.12.08
Staff at Espelette appear as effortlessly as in a Noël Coward play...... more

Evocation of gay hatred gives it to us straight

30.10.08
Seductive music, murderous reggae songs and sinister dance sequences form an ironic accompaniment to To Be Straight With You.... more

CDs of the week

04.07.08
Beck's new record is worth staying up all night for, Black Kids' time may come and Mike Walker releases a Mancunian masterpiece.... more

Exceedingly Posh cakes: Heidi Klum has given Victoria Beckham a year's supply of cupcakes as a birthday gift

10.05.08
They are calling it the Marie Antoinette diet. And even Victoria Beckham, who strives to be Hollywood's most fashionable – and thinnest – woman, has become a convert to the latest food fad: the cult of the cupcake. Victoria fell under the spell of the brightly coloured cakes after supermodel Heidi Klum gave her a year's supply for her 34th birthday ... more

Heading downhill to the Seventies

26.09.07
It may sport black chandeliers, tulip chairs and offer pineapple ravioli, but all Vanilla's effort and money has been used to ill effect.... more

'My battle to make Craig 007'

15.11.06
At first fans tore into the new 007 actor, but now Daniel Craig is being hailed as the best Bond since Connery. The film's director, Martin Campbell, tells how his gamble paid off.... more


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